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FrumpleOrz posted:poo poo, are you sure? I could've sworn an option popped up and I chose something right before Chloe said "I KNEW IT." Was that not between telling her or not telling her? Yeah it is absolutely a choice, though I suppose she might see through you if you chose not to say.
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Nckdictator posted:Any clues on what's making Kate so sad ? (Besides her general unpopularity) I was thinking Nathan raped her like he attempted with Chloe. Zerilan posted:In the first scene, read the paper that gets thrown at her
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Anyone wondering what the song from the launch trailer is, it's "Glass Walls" by Nik Ammar. Really liking the soundtrack for the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK63zrCCORQ
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I was watching some LPs and there are a ton of extra dialoges that are unlocked when you use the time reverse thing correctly, I should probably start a new game and check those out.
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Kraps posted:I was watching some LPs and there are a ton of extra dialoges that are unlocked when you use the time reverse thing correctly, I should probably start a new game and check those out. What do you mean correctly? There weren't more than like a handful of cases where you actually got extra dialogue.
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Hakkesshu posted:What do you mean correctly? There weren't more than like a handful of cases where you actually got extra dialogue. Maybe it's because I missed talking to some of the people but it seemed to me that you only got extra dialogue, like about Rachel, if you used time reverse, in order to make people open up to Max.
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Kraps posted:Maybe it's because I missed talking to some of the people but it seemed to me that you only got extra dialogue, like about Rachel, if you used time reverse, in order to make people open up to Max. So hey the license plates in the parking lot all seem to be TV shows. I figured them all out except for one:  The X-Files  Twin Peaks  Twilight Zone The Sopranos  Six Feet Under  Quantum Leap Buffy the Vampire Slayer  Breaking Bad  Somebody loves their HBO shows. I have no idea what the last one is though. Bird Churches?
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Feb 9, 2015 08:02
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Looks like it's Broadchurch.
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Hannibal Smith posted:Looks like it's Broadchurch. I forgot the one I was most proud of figuring out  Carnivale
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I doubt it was intentional, but I like how THXFLS could be seen as a double reference with X-Files and THX-1138. Because of course Warren's car would have layers of nerd meaning.
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PunkBoy posted:I doubt it was intentional, but I like how THXFLS could be seen as a double reference with X-Files and THX-1138. Because of course Warren's car would have layers of nerd meaning. Two more I missed. OK now I'm done (until the next episode anyway, can't wait for more hot license plate action)  Parks and Rec  No clue on this one.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:
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Oh nice, that makes sense. Yeah someone really likes their HBO shows.
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I beat the first episode yesterday, really liked it overall. I will say that I don't think they quite got the ratio of "That Guy/That Girl to Jocks" ratio quite right. Anecdotally I attended and now work at a private liberal arts institution, and the skew is way further in the direction of "That Guy/That Girl" than Jocks and the like. Still, I realize that the makeup of the school was largely to give variety, and by and large it did that. Some interesting characters in there, I can't wait to see what happens next. I always wanted to be an awkward weirdo with godlike powers, and this game certainly scratches that itch. 
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SpaceAceJase posted:I'm pining hard for the next chapter I was just thinking this yesterday. I'm not a bit fan of the episodic releases.
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It leaked online not long after the first episode came out. Spoilers: the writing is still garbage. Hella.
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Hopkins FBI posted:It leaked online not long after the first episode came out. Spoilers: the writing is still garbage. Hella. I asked a friend of mine in Seattle and apparently in the past couple years people in Oregon really have started saying "hella" a lot. Ironically or something. So that part is actually accurate.
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Hopkins FBI posted:It leaked online not long after the first episode came out. Spoilers: the writing is still garbage. Hella. The writing was fine you whiny grandpas
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Macaluso posted:The writing was fine you whiny grandpas Honestly the only problem with the writing is that it's very obvious that it wasn't proofread by a native American  well enoughLike you can totally tell it was written by French people who are fluent in English.
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Mar 7, 2015 14:20
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'Hella' is like a major Northern California thing and I wouldn't be surprised if it wormed its way up to Oregon.
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Dr. Killjoy posted:'Hella' is like a major Northern California thing and I wouldn't be surprised if it wormed its way up to Oregon. The writer is indeed from Northern California, so there you go.
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hella is not even some obscure or outdated thing like how out of touch with whats happening around you do you need to be to not understand regional slang
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Maleficent posted:hella is not even some obscure or outdated thing like how out of touch with whats happening around you do you need to be to not understand regional slang Hella?
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Maleficent posted:hella is not even some obscure or outdated thing like how out of touch with whats happening around you do you need to be to not understand regional slang Yeah I think a load of posters are a little miffed that their AARP cards haven't arrived in the mail yet. You should be more considerate of that. Also some assholes from Gamespot got to try the latest episode before release I guess
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I'm still hip. I know what a wifi is and I kick started my heart pacer once.
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Maleficent posted:hella is not even some obscure or outdated thing like how out of touch with whats happening around you do you need to be to not understand regional slang The thing is that even in times and places where "hella" is popular, it still sounds really dumb. 
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Mar 9, 2015 19:17
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Next episode: one of the characters uses "throwing shade;" thread explodes in anger.
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precision posted:The thing is that even in times and places where "hella" is popular, it still sounds really dumb. Yeah, but it's a cast of teenagers. Teenagers sound really dumb. Like, on the one hand, the characters sound like annoying dumbasses who are trying to sound cool. On the other hand, teenagers ARE annoying dumbasses who are trying to sound cool. I mean, you basically have two options. You either go Buffy, where everybody is a constantly witty pop culture fountain with impeccable hair, or you go the direction Life is Strange went, where teenagers are awkward human beings who don't know how to act like fully formed people yet. I can guarantee that none of the characters in this game are any more cringeworthy than I was, based on the memories of poo poo I did as a kid that make my grit my teeth when I'm trying to sleep.
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Crappy Jack posted:Yeah, but it's a cast of teenagers. Teenagers sound really dumb. Like, on the one hand, the characters sound like annoying dumbasses who are trying to sound cool. On the other hand, teenagers ARE annoying dumbasses who are trying to sound cool. I mean, you basically have two options. You either go Buffy, where everybody is a constantly witty pop culture fountain with impeccable hair, or you go the direction Life is Strange went, where teenagers are awkward human beings who don't know how to act like fully formed people yet. I can guarantee that none of the characters in this game are any more cringeworthy than I was, based on the memories of poo poo I did as a kid that make my grit my teeth when I'm trying to sleep. Real life teenagers don't generally conform 100% to television stereotypes, so that excuse doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I mean I guess they could, theoretically; the stereotypes aren't inaccurate in that sense. But do you really not see how this is a special case of 'realistic teenagers', when they seem to be lifted straight out of a Disney Channel teen sitcom? icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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You people are forgetting how influenced by pop culture and incredibly annoying you all were in high school. edit: I've refreshed this page 4 times and each time icantfindaname has edited his reply in about 2 minutes, jesus calm down grandma icantfindaname posted:they seem to be lifted straight out of a Disney Channel teen sitcom? Please stop watching the disney channel, you're an adult Blister fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Mar 9, 2015 |
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Blister posted:You people are forgetting how influenced by pop culture and incredibly annoying you all were in high school.  Blister posted:Please stop watching the disney channel, you're an adult So then I should not play this game either, since it's apparently written for 13 year olds?
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icantfindaname posted:Real life teenagers don't generally conform 100% to television stereotypes, so that excuse doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I mean I guess they could, theoretically; the stereotypes aren't inaccurate in that sense. But do you really not see how this is a special case of 'realistic teenagers', when they seem to be lifted straight out of a Disney Channel teen sitcom? I'm really not even sure what you're trying to say here. Is the problem that they're not realistic? Too realistic? Too fake? Not fake enough? I mean, it's a video game. It's a work of fiction created by a person. That person made the artistic choice to have the teenaged characters in his game sound like dumb teenagers who are trying to figure out who they are.
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Crappy Jack posted:I'm really not even sure what you're trying to say here. Is the problem that they're not realistic? Too realistic? Too fake? Not fake enough? I mean, it's a video game. It's a work of fiction created by a person. That person made the artistic choice to have the teenaged characters in his game sound like dumb teenagers who are trying to figure out who they are. The game feels like a tween sitcom. I don't care if that's realistic or not realistic, I don't like it
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icantfindaname posted:The game feels like a tween sitcom. I don't care if that's realistic or not realistic, I don't like it Okay, that's cool. I've started plenty of movies and TV shows and books and put them down before I finished because they just didn't grab me. That's a thing that happens, yes.
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If teenagers are so insufferable, why make a game full of insufferable characters? Maybe because teenagers who will play this game don't know how insufferable they are. But that's just my theory.
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icantfindaname posted:The game feels like a tween sitcom. I don't care if that's realistic or not realistic, I don't like it Then why have you posted in this thread more than almost everyone else? You don't like it? Great, we get that and we've heard the reasons you don't like it. Continuing to post at this point is just hella unnecessary.
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Where the hell were you all when someone had a different opinion on any other game's writing.
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Paladinus posted:If teenagers are so insufferable, why make a game full of insufferable characters? Maybe because teenagers who will play this game don't know how insufferable they are. But that's just my theory. Because growing from insufferable and unsure awkward teen into mature adult is a very common and relateable character arc, and we've only seen part 1 of 5, where characters and their flaws and conflicts are introduced.
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I think the dialogue works within the world, it's at least pretty consistent. It's broad strokes characterization in a lot of ways (again, why would they have full out dudebro football jocks in a small, exclusive art school?) but I know that's more for the purpose of establishing this stereotypical high school hierarchy and it doesn't bother me too much. It does have a little bit of a Veronica Mars thing where some of the high schoolers seem way smarter and adult than others, yet still act and talk like high schoolers most of the time, but it's not nearly as bad as in most TV shows and movies where they have 20+ year olds playing the parts. And apropos of nothing really, I was replaying the first episode and rewound so hard I apparently froze time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DpNzlG3ZXo
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